The second annual Lindenwood, Pepsi, Salvation Army Bell Ring Challenge brought in $2,736.27 over a five-day period, a nearly $1,000 increase over last year’s total.

Lindenwood University will hold its December Commencement ceremonies at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, and at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at the St. Charles Family Arena. Nearly 800 graduates are expected to participate in the ceremonies, and 1,290 degrees will be conferred.

At 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 10, a broken power line touched off power surges on Lindenwood University’s Heritage Campus and knocked out power on that side of campus for a little over three hours until repairs could be made by Ameren. During the outage, students from affected residence halls were relocated to the Spellmann Center, where Lindenwood President John R. Porter purchased pizza for the relocated students.

Congratulations to Allison Barry, who received first place or DECA Gold in the team case study category of Sports & Entertainment at the Collegiate DECA Conference – ENGAGE – held the weekend of November 21-23 in Chicago.

Alex Ferrario (’13, ’15) has a case of the blues. Fortunately, that means the two-time Lindenwood graduate gets to talk every day about his Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues and get paid for it.

Lindenwood University was named Best College or University in St. Charles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best of St. Charles reader poll. The poll sought reader favorites in more than 100 categories.

Lindenwood senior Bailey Hays recently completed the long process of growing out his hair for the purpose of donating it to the organization Children with Hair Loss.

When Cassandra Brown Ray (’08) went to work at the Saint Louis Zoo as a staff accountant, she did not think she would stay for very long. That was 1992. Earlier this year, she was named CFO for the Zoo, one of St. Louis’ most respected and iconic institutions. She has the distinction of being the first African-American and the first woman to hold that role.

All offices on the Lindenwood University campus will close at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, for the Thanksgiving holiday and will remain closed Thursday, Nov. 28, and Friday, Nov. 29.

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world. GivingTuesday will kick off the generosity season this year by inspiring people to give back on Dec. 3rd and throughout the year.